(huān) - joyful, happy (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
huānTraditional: 欢
Translation
joyful, happy (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character (traditional 歡): the open-mouth radical 欠 suggests a glad outburst, with the left element supplying the sound; it means joyful or happy.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 欠 (open-mouth radical) + phonetic element
Stroke order
欢
Examples
。
I like drinking tea.
。
Welcome to my home.
闹。
She doesn't like noisy places.
。
She laughs joyfully.
。
The children are playing merrily.
欢 (huān) carries the sense of joy. It does not stand alone in modern speech but powers two extremely common compounds: 喜欢 (to like) and 欢迎 (to welcome).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 欢.
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Grammar articles
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Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses
Mandarin Negation: 不 (bù) vs 没 (méi), and Why 不有 Does Not Exist
Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
Yes-No Questions in Mandarin: 吗 (ma), Echo Answers, and the Bounce-Back 呢 (ne)
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